How to provide psychological care for lung cancer patients 5 methods of psychological care for lung cancer patients

Facing lung cancer, everyone has an instinctive fear of it because it may take the patient's life at any time. However, excessive fear will delay treatment, so we need to help patients fight a psychological defense battle and eliminate all kinds of negative psychology in patients. In this regard, let's take a look at the experts' introduction to the knowledge of psychological care for lung cancer.

Lung cancer patients are tortured by the disease and their mental fluctuations are too great, and their body and mind are very fragile. Especially when they are just diagnosed, it is difficult for patients and their families to accept it, so when patients are admitted to the hospital, nurses and doctors must help patients overcome psychological barriers.

1. Care should be taken to comfort patients, introduce them to the ward environment, the attending physician and the attending nurse, eliminate their sense of unfamiliarity and nervousness, reduce their fear of hospitalization, help them make friends with other patients, guide their families to provide strong support both mentally and in life, keep abreast of their psychological changes, and adopt various forms of psychological counseling for them.

2. Establishing a good nurse-patient relationship is the premise for timely and effective psychological counseling. Therefore, nurses should communicate with patients frequently. They should close the distance between themselves and patients through chatting, listen to patients' complaints patiently, and use the knowledge they have learned to properly explain the condition. They should understand the feelings and emotional changes hidden in patients' language through conversations, and take effective psychological care in a timely manner.

3. Satisfy patients’ psychological needs. Many needs of patients with advanced lung cancer are restricted, which in turn affects their emotions and behaviors. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully observe the needs of patients and meet their various needs.

4. Encourage patients to participate in group activities that are beneficial to their physical and mental health, such as playing cards, chess, reading newspapers, etc., to divert patients' attention, encourage communication between patients, adjust patients' emotions, and face the disease with a positive attitude.

5. Nursing staff should talk more with patients. According to the patients' age, occupation, education level, personality, etc., they should encourage patients to express their feelings, listen to patients patiently, grasp the main contradictions of patients, try to answer the questions raised by patients, provide patients with effective nursing services in a timely manner, solve their problems, eliminate all kinds of mental pressures, and establish a good nurse-patient relationship with patients. These behavioral measures are all psychological nursing methods for lung cancer.